Student Industry Projects
Empowering Innovation: Shaping the Future with Student-Industry Collaboration
We are seeking organisations of all sizes to provide real-world problems for our students to tackle, and engage with our students.
Student industry projects are unpaid projects undertaken by students in collaboration with an industry partner and an academic supervisor at the University. Projects can be a small research and development project undertaken by one or two students, or an in-depth development project undertaken by a team of five or more students. The duration of projects is either one or two academic semesters, with all project work taking place on campus.
What's in it for an organisation that provides challenges for students?
By partnering with us on Student Industry Projects, industries will have the unique opportunity to:
- Engage with Emerging Talent: Work directly with bright, motivated students who are eager to apply their knowledge to real-world scenarios.
- Gain Fresh Perspectives and Shape Innovative Solutions: Present your organisation with a pressing challenge, and receive innovative, actionable solutions developed through our semester- or year-long project.
- Talent Pipeline: Identify and engage with potential future employees who are already familiar with your industry.
- Strategic Solutions: Obtain practical solutions that can be implemented to drive your business forward.
- Enhance Industry-Academia Collaboration: Contribute to the development of future IT leaders while gaining fresh perspectives and insights from our students.
Steps in establishing student industry projects:
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Define the Challenge
Provide a real-world problem or challenge that your organisation is currently facing or anticipates facing in the near future.
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Find a Project Mentor
Identify someone within your organisation who can meet with the students, provide guidance throughout the semester or year, and review their final solution. The frequency of meeting depends on the needs of individual projects.
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Contact Us with Your Challenge
Submit a project proposal or contact Professor Leon Sterling with details of your problem, contact details of the project mentor and how you would like to work with the students. They will discuss the appropriateness of the project and make suggestions where required.
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Agreement Establishment
To protect the interests of both students and industry, participating organisations will be asked to sign the University’s Vocational Placement Letter Agreement to engage with our students. This agreement contains the terms and conditions under which we establish these projects, including the fact that IP is assigned to your organisation
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Project Delivery
Our students will work on your challenge, guided by academic staff and project mentor from your organisation throughout the semester or year, ensuring the solution is relevant to your problem.
What type of projects can we work on together?
Looking to bring fresh talents into your team?
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Contact us to assist you.
- Prof Leon Sterling
- leonss@unimelb.edu.au
- Phone
- +61 3 9214 8491